In this movie filmed by Robert Andriessen of Designguide.tv, designer Dirk Vander Kooij explains his robot that prints chairs made of recycled refrigerators. The project was one of three winners at this year's DMY Awards, announced at a ceremony in Berlin last night. More »
Milan 2011: Italian designer Fabio Novembre will present this robot-shaped shelving unit for design brand Casamania in Milan next month. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen's top ten stories about robots. More »
London Design Festival 2010: Clemens Weisshaar & Reed Kram have installed eight robotic arms to scrawl messages from the public across the air in Trafalgar Square, and Dezeen readers can use a special VIP code to get their messages prioritised. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen's top ten stories about robots. More »
Michigan studios Rootoftwo and PLY Architecture have housed their conceptual models of future kitchen appliances in a paper teahouse at the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan. Update 31/07/11: see Dezeen's top ten stories about robots. More »
Designers Kram/Weisshaar are to install a robotic "octopus" in Trafalgar Square during the London Design Festival in September. More »
German designer Stefan Ulrich has designed a conceptual shape-changing object to relieve loneliness, using artificial muscle technology. More »
Boston architects Howeler + Yoon and Los Angeles digital designers Squared Design Lab have designed a conceptual structure for Boston, where an unfinished building would be covered in modular pods growing algae for biofuel. More »
Construction will begin on a wall to be built entirely by a robot - designed by Swiss architects Gramazio and Kohler - in New York later this month. Update: this project is included in Dezeen Book of Ideas, which is on sale now for £12. More »
Professor Ingeborg M. Rocker of Rocker-Lange Architects and students at the Graduate School of Design at Harvard University, USA, have used a robot to build an undulating double-wall structure. More »
Hong Kong artist and designer Kacey Wong has designed a shelter for homeless people that looks like a robot. More »
Design Miami 08: more from New York gallery R 20th Century at Design Miami last week, this time Robots by designer Rusti D. More »
